Various — Army Records Society

London, The Bodley Head, Sutton Publishing, The History Press, Boydell Press, 1985-2021. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition eighteen volume set comprising records of the army throughout the years. First editions stated, comprising eighteen volumes with narratives on different aspects of the army from journals, letters, correspondences as well as narratives of the events. Published for the Army Records Society, volume one to three by the Bodley Head, volume fifteen to twenty five by Sutton Publishing, volume twenty sevent to thirty five by the History press, and volume forty by the Boydell Press.The titles include: volume one The Military Correspondence of Field marshal Sir Henry Wilson, volume three The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, volume fifteen The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles á Court Repington: Military Correspondence of the Time, volume seventeen Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa 1899-1902, volume twenty five Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa, volume twenty seven Montgomery and the Battle of Normandy, volume twenty eight Wolseley and Ashanti, volume twenty nine The First World War Letters of General Lord horne, volume 30 The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam 1910-1942, volume thirty one Crimean Cavalry Letters, volume thirty two The Military papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, volume thhirty three The Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine, 1953-1955, volume thirty four, Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914, volume thirty five The Diary of Corporal Vince Schurhoff, 1914-1918, volume thirty six Liaison, volume thirty seven The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major-General J.F.C.Fuller, 1916-1933, volume thirty eight The Duke of Cumberland's Campaigns in Britain and the Low Countries, 1745-1748, and volume forty The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42. In the original publisher's red cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally, lovely with minor shelfwear. Loosely inserted to volume twenty seven is a newspaper article about Montgomery and his Normandy landing plan, dated 23.12.11 and signed by Montgomery. Dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent with minor shelfwear only. Spine to thirteen volumes slightly sunned. internally,m firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With two maps to volume one, sixteen illustrations to volume three, one map to volume seventeen, twenty five, and thirty three, eight maps to volume twenty-nine, five illustrations and four maps to volume thirty-two, five illustrations to volume thirty five, seven illustrations to volume thirty six, three maps to volume thirty eight, and five maps to volume forty. Including the Army Records Society annual general meeting booklet loosely inserted to volume thirty three and thirty seven, respectively dated 2013 and 2017, with lectures by Dr huw Bennet and Prof. Alaric Searle. Fine . Ill.: Unnamed. Fine/Near Fine.